Richard Evers (born May 31, 1959) is a Canadian publisher, programmer, technology consultant and author. Evers was editor and publisher of The Transactor and Transactor for the Amiga. He has worked for a number of Canadian technology companies, including Research in Motion, where he edited the BlackBerry Developer Journal. He is president of Northern Blue Publishing in Waterloo, Ontario, and co-author of Professional BlackBerry (Wrox) and co-author of The Trackers. He later founded Kryptera, an encryption technology for data at rest.[1]
Evers has served as technical editor of BlackBerry for Dummies (2011;); BlackBerry Pearl 3G for Dummies (2011;); BlackBerry Java Application Development (2010;); BlackBerry ALL-IN-ONE for Dummies (2010;); BlackBerry Curve for Dummies (2010;); BlackBerry Storm for Dummies (2009;); and Mobile Guide to BlackBerry (2005).